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I am new to beekeeping (2 years)and have a lot to learn so bear with my ignorance.....the weather is just getting to the point where I will feel OK about looking over the Hive for the spring. My bees are very busy and look healthy. I will look to see if the queen is laying in good concentration if she is....should I leave well enough alone and not requeen as I have heard many do??????

I try to requeen a minimum of every two years and sometimes every year. I really only try to keep awsome queens another year, not just because I think they may do well for me for another year, but because I'm breeding queens and I want their genetics around in the form of drones and possibly raising another crop of queens. By the time a queen is one year old she makes less QMP (Queen Madibular Pheromone) and therefore is more likely to swarm. By the time they are two they are pretty well done and will almost always fail by the time they are three.

I prefer requeening in the late summer or fall. First the queens are cheaper, if you're buying them, second I can raise better queens that time of year, third, I can buy Northern raised queens that time of year, fourth, I can requeen at a time when disrupting the hive with a new queen won't adversely affect my main honey crop.

But if I think a queen is failing at any time I will try to requeen that hive, whether spring or summer or fall.

Your other choice is let the queen fail and the bees will supercede her, but the other danger is that before that happens, the bees will be more likely to swarm and leave with her and half the bees.

I had planned on using the drone magnet method, but I never have. It takes a lot of resources for the bees to make those drones and they will make more to replace the ones you take. It's better than letting them die from mites, but I think there are less bee labor intensive methods.

You are walking in grey teritory here. Your queen is doing fine, my instinct is to leaver her alone. If she was three years old, I would not even hesitate with requeening. Rule of thumb to keep inmind, older the queen, the higher chance of swarming, and the higher chance of queen failure.
What I would do is leave her, but mark her with here age colour. Make a few cells and throw them in cell protectors in the hive. Do it while the colony is building and not booming into a swarm. Letthe bees decide...
Check for the queen a month latter to see who is running the colony, and mark the new queen it is so happens.